Intel i7-8700K CPU Review Leaks Onto The Web
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moeppel
I may be misinterpreting the images and please correct me should I be wrong: Since all the videos scores are pretty much equal the 7700K and 8700K seem to be the same in terms of power (frequency, IPC, so to speak) while the increase in FPS, more than anything, seems to be core/thread count related in combination with the given game's engine anyhow.
Meaning, ultimately, what I'm reading from those charts is that a 7700K is in fact a bottleneck due to core/thread count limitations in a lot of cases and likely has been for quite some time - pretty much all of Intel's lineup has been.
Or is it that the new manufacturer process is kicking in, assuming there's no fundamental architecture difference between the 7800X and 8700K? The 7800X feels quite off in terms of numbers and the 8700K seems to turn into a inexplainable wonderchild.
That's quite interesting, to say the least.
Emille
Look at that witcher 3 performance increase. Also nice to see that is beats the 7700k across the board, even if it is only by a fraction in some cases.
Besting the 7700k in more singlethreaded tasks where 7700k is at it's best and also having the multithreaded advantage, unlike ryzen which trades single threaded performance for multithreading.
I think this cpu is going to sell like crazy.
Robbo9999
Kaarme
BLEH!
Cue Ryzen price drop :P
alanm
Re gaming, lets see performance @1440p and above.
Ryu5uzaku
Dark Scizor
Basically a 7800X on steroids.
alanm
The witcher 3 result doesnt make sense. Its the sort of jump one expects from a GPU upgrade, not CPU.
Bounty
So would it be worth upgrading from a 4770k running at 4.5ghz ?
It seems to me the improvements to CPU's is going at a snails pace. Murphys law my @$$
Would help if the game developers made full use of all these cores and threads...
Ricepudding
H83
MaCk0y
This will be good for BF1.
alanm
Fediuld
Sylencer
Seems like i found my new cpu to upgrade from my 4790k within the next months.
BReal85
ivymike10mt
geogan
When are these 8700 supposed to be available to buy and are they going to be way more than current price of 7700k? Will they require another new motherboard/chipset?
Thinking of getting i7 7700K CPU + MSI Z270-A PRO now for £408 but not sure whether to wait for 8700K + what motherboard
BReal85